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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.hawkular.orgopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsMireo
Initial release20132014201120152020
Current release15585
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononono
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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